It's a truism that the Malignant Loser is a ticking time bomb when it comes to testimony, simply because when he's not answering the question, he's lying. The deposition that he gave in New York State's massive fraud case against him has just been released, and it's everything you'd expect from the diseased mind of the Malignant Loser. The Associated Press has the story:
"In newly public testimony, Donald Trump boasts about building a multibillion-dollar brand and saving 'millions of lives' as president.
He spars with the New York attorney general suing him for fraud, telling Letitia James 'the whole case is crazy' and accusing her staff of trying to trip him up like TV lawyer Perry Mason did to witnesses.
Trump gave seven hours of sworn testimony in April as part of James’ lawsuit, which accused the Republican and his company of defrauding banks, insurers and others with annual financial statements that inflated the value of assets and boosted his net worth by more than $2 billion in some years. [snip]
He insisted the banks she alleges were snookered with lofty valuations suffered no harm, got paid in his deals and 'to this day have no complaints.' [snip]
Trump said he never felt his financial statements 'would be taken very seriously,' and that people who did business with him were given ample warning not to trust them.
Trump described the statements as 'a fairly good compilation of properties' rather than a true representation of their value. Some numbers, he noted, were 'guesstimates.'
Trump claimed the statements were mainly for his use, though he conceded financial institutions sometimes asked for them.
Even then, he insisted it didn’t matter legally if they were accurate or not, because they came with a disclaimer.
'I have a clause in there that says, ‘Don’t believe the statement. Go out and do your own work,' Trump testified. 'You’re supposed to pay no credence to what we say whatsoever.'” (our emphasis)
The cheap criminality oozes from each excuse and deflection. Too bad he wasn't required to give a similar disclaimer before every time he ran for President.
True to form for a narcissistic sociopath, he tagged his own son Eric as being the one in charge, and the one making decisions, trying to throw him under the bus. Ah, a father's love for his son. There's more of his usual empty bragging and slurs as the deposition continues, reminding us of the monster he is and will always be.
